premise-workshop agent skill by danjdewhurst

At a glance

Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

• Bundled scripts: none.
• License: MIT, an open-source or open-content license.

Install premise-workshop

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

npx skills add https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/premise-workshop

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/premise-workshop .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
    --repo danjdewhurst/story-skills \
    --path skills/premise-workshop

danjdewhurst/story-skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm a story idea", "I have an idea for a story", "what if", "develop a premise", "is this idea strong enough", "workshop my logline", "premise", "story concept", "what should I write", "short story or novel", "novella or novel", "name my book", "title ideas", or has a spark (an image, a character, a setting, a question) and wants to turn it into a tested premise before starting a story project. NOT for the controlling idea or theme of an existing story (use theme-craft).

From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.

Sections in SKILL.md

• Overview
• Prerequisites
• When to Use
• Workflow
• 1. Capture the spark
• 2. Generate what-ifs
• 3. Workshop the logline
• 4. Draft premise and counter-premise
• 5. Name the stakes
• 6. Choose the form
• 7. Brainstorm titles
• 8. Sanity-check against comparable books
• 9. Hand off to story-init
• Conventions
• CLI Maintenance
• Reference Files

Files in the skill folder

• SKILL.md
• references/form-choice.md
• references/premise-tests.md
• references/title-and-comps.md
• references/what-if-generation.md

Suede Skill Check: 90/100 · A

premise-workshop passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

Where this skill is cited

danjdewhurst/story-skills appears in 2 curated lists: heilcheng/awesome-agent-skills, hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code.

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